Friday, August 7, 2015

Last museum day

Today was the last day of our six day museum pass.  We definitely got our money's worth out of the pass.  For $76 we already went to the Louvre,  L'Orangerie, Musee d'Orsay,  Versailles,  Notre Dame,  Sainte Chapelle, Concergerie,  modern art museum,  and the army museum.  There were at least 50 more places that we could have visited if our legs could still work.

With the late night visit to the Eiffel Tower we got up late and planned to visit the museums near our apartment.  The closest was the Cluny Museum.  It was definitely not on the tourist A lists as there were no tour buses waiting outside.

This small museum focuses on medieval objects.  There were original stained glass on display,  tapestries and objects almost 1000 years old.  The museum was pretty boring until we went downstairs and discovered that the 700 year old building was built on abandoned Roman baths and we could walk through the original spaces down below.

After admiring the old Roman structure we went to lunch at an Asian noodle shop.  We have been burned out on French food and baguettes.  The noodle shop had good yelp reviews which is why we made the long walk to the shop.  It was cool that the chef hand pulled the noodles after we placed our order.  It was good but the flavors are different from what we are used to at home.

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